Honda’s natural gas powered Civic GX is currently only available in California and three other states.Yup: coal-powered cars.
The decision to expand marketing efforts nationwide reflects the growing demand for environmentally-friendly cars in mainstream U.S. markets.
Natural-gas-powered vehicles are expected to compete with electric vehicles, especially to the extent the latter rely on electricity produced by coal-burning power plants.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Competition for Coal-Powered Cars
I did not invent the term "coal-powered cars" but I have used it consistently. It appears others, like Forbes.com are coming on board.
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Not related to this article. I see different status' for wells on the NDIC production reports. One is a well status that says F (flowing) or AL (artificial lift). I don't see explanations for these anywhere.
ReplyDelete"AL" means they have put a pump on the well.
ReplyDeleteAlmost all wells eventually have a pump placed, but not all wells.
"F" obviously means they are still flowing on their own. The amount of oil production before/after the pump does not change much, if any.
What do you think Bruce?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.energydigital.com/sectors/renewables/e-cat-device-commercial-cold-fusion-finally-reality
In the next few months or perhaps a bit longer... no more then a year... We will find out if the world gets a break and a limitless energy solution is here for good.
I don't know enough about it to comment. Putting one unit of energy into the device to get 12 units of energy back sounds pretty good.
ReplyDelete"An initial public demonstration in January 2011 revealed that with only 1 kW of energy input into the device, it yielded 12 kW of heat energy output."
With ethanol, I think they put 1.2 units of energy into the process (from fertilizer to seed cost to diesel fuel for the tractors to processing it) to get 1 unit of energy. Of course, as the price of corn goes up, the lure of ethanol lessens.